USS Cole bombing
10/12/2000 AD attacked
A suicide attack by the terrorist group al Qaeda against USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy while she was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor.
17 (plus two attackers) killed and 37 injured
Seventeen U.S. Navy sailors were killed and 37 injured in the deadliest attack against a United States naval vessel since the USS Stark incident in 1987.
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack against the United States. A U.S. judge has held Sudan liable for the attack, while another has released over $13 million in Sudanese frozen assets to the relatives of those killed.
The United States Navy has reconsidered its rules of engagement in response to this attack. On 13 February 2020, the government of Sudan agreed to compensate families of the sailors who died in the bombing.
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Al-Qaeda (القاعدة) Network of Islamic extre...
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